Re: Montross trade

["Shailendra K Mishra" <smishra@ix.netcom.com>]

I completely agree, because if one remembers May reported that ML offered
the 6th pick & next years draft pick (i.e.) Billups to Toronto for Marcus
Camby. Now how does that sound for being perceptive?
                                                                   - Mishra

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Chomicz <choms@tiac.net>


>On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 06:12:12 -0500, you e-mailed me these thoughts:
>
>>Anyone who
>>knew anything about the players available in the '96 draft could see at
>>the time that the trade was a steal for the Celtics, with potentially
>>huge upside on the '97 pick.  ML DID see the future on this one.  But
>>aren't you the guy who wanted him lynched?
>
>Get real.  ML didn't see shit! This was no different than when he saw
>the future with Dana Barros as the savior of the celtics, whom he
>signed to a very expensive overly paid contract.
>
>I was very much apart of this email list discussions and the news
>groups when the Montross trade went down.  It was seen as a good deal
>for the celtics, not a great deal because it was way to early in the
>season to see how bad dallas would become.  The reason it was seen as
>a good deal on our side was because Montross was playing so poorly and
>we were consistently a mediocre team getting mediocre picks.  Getting
>most anybody for Montross would have been an improvement. The 1996
>draft had a ton of potential from 1 to 9.    A #6 pick was a definite
>plus since we were consistently getting the 12- 15 range.  The 1997
>dallas #1 was a total unknown and I mean unknown as in ML is not
>clairvoyant.
>
>As for the lynching... Someone in this group wanted his number retired
>and raised to the rafters.  I replied that he should be hoisted as a
>reminder to what will happen to incompetent management.  And as normal
>on the internet, people run off with all kind of weird interpretations
>of this, when nothing was intended by me in the first place except to
>state my displeasure with the damage this guy did to the celtics and
>by my amazement that there are people who actually admire this guy.
>
>I am closing the ML thread.  No more posts from me on this subject. I
>clearly am comfortable in my mind knowing he was top quality in the
>incompetent management area.
>
>-steve
>
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